Dialect poetry, William Barnes and the literary canon

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dc.contributor.authorBurton, T.
dc.contributor.authorRuthven, K.
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractDialectologgy was one of the triumphs of Victorian scholarship. Yet anthologists .argely ignore Victorian dialect poetry. Its marginality is attributed to the teaching of standard English in schools, metropolitan and middle-class condescension towars regional and working-class speech, and the impossibility of representing phonological variance in a print culture without resorting to bizarre spellings or phonetic symobls. Apropos William Barnes's Poems of Rural Life, in the Dorset Dialect (1844), this paper argues that new media technologies will extend the present aural range of Victorian poetry by enabling dialect poems to be heard effortlessly instead of read laboriously.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityT. L. Burton and K. K. Ruthven
dc.identifier.citationELH: English Literary History, 2009; 76(2):309-341
dc.identifier.doi10.1353/elh.0.0048
dc.identifier.issn0013-8304
dc.identifier.issn1080-6547
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/55127
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherJohns Hopkins Univ Press
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1353/elh.0.0048
dc.titleDialect poetry, William Barnes and the literary canon
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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